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Review of Altoona Regional Health System

My daughter was unfortunately a patient in your "S...

My daughter was unfortunately a patient in your "So called" emergency room. Waited almost 6 hours to be seen by a doctor. She was not the only one. A person with a recent heart problem was left sitting in the "pending results" for over 2 hours after coming in with chest pain. The ED doc did her assessment in the same area in front of many others waiting for results. Guess she never heard of HIPPA. She also examined another person in the same area. Customers were sitting back there for hours without any employee around for more than 50% if the time. Your Dr Kahn female) decided in a 2 minute evaluation, that my daughter's problem was her weight when
she has weighed around the same for over 15 years and her own Internal Medicine doctor that knew her for over 20 years had no problem with her weight. Maybe she should have read the chart before she came into the room. At least the cardiologist knew why she was there and ordered the appropriate followup. We have already tried to contact relations, but I guess they don't care enough to return calls.